Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Curly_photo Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a woman's hand picking lime from a tree - Pumpui366/Shutterstock If you've been struggling to amp up the yield from ...

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit ...

From the region that gave us pollination by cockroaches and dung beetles, here’s another of Nature’s peculiarities: a plant that relies on a fungus as well as a pollinating insect. In Malaysia, the ...

Cacao has long been a sought-after raw material for the worlds food industry. At first glance, it therefore seems surprising that biology knows little about the pollination of the cacao tree—although ...

Growing your own fruit doesn't require a sprawling country property or a half-acre plot. More home gardeners are discovering ...

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

If you've been struggling to amp up the yield from your lime tree, despite it having a lot of flowers, chances are, your tree is not getting enough pollination by itself. Despite the tree being ...